Truth-denier Trump won’t own up to killing schoolchildren in Iran, and Pete Hegseth is right there to applaud him
As Donald Trump and his Republican allies continue to wage a war on Iran, risking American lives, people are demanding accountability. A significant number of civilians are asking Trump to stop fighting Benjamin Netanyahu’s war and to disassociate from Iran. Their protests have grown even louder ever since they learned that the US and Israel’s joint forces caused casualties at a girls’ school. Men who claim to uphold Christianity and the pro-life movement, bombing children, has to be the greatest irony.
Despite several news outlets revealing that the attacks responsible for the deaths of hundreds of children in Iran during the early days of the US/Israel strikes were likely carried out by the US, the country denies any involvement. Recently, members of the press repeatedly questioned representatives of the current Trump administration about their actions that led to the deaths of several children. In all instances, they denied any wrongdoing. While some claim the matter is under investigation, others, like Donald Trump, stress that the US was not responsible for bombing children in Iran and that Iran itself is to blame.
Donald Trump denies accountability over Iran school attacks
While en route to Miami with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump, aboard Air Force One, conversed with the press as usual and was asked to answer questions on a myriad of subjects. One journalist bluntly asked Trump to confirm whether the US, on the first day of its attacks on Iran, bombed a girl’s elementary school, resulting in 175 deaths. Trump replied negatively to this question and added that, in his opinion, based on what he had seen, it was done by Iran.
The reporter then turned to Pete Hegseth and asked him to confirm if that was true. Hegseth responded that the US was still investigating the matter. Suggesting that Iran was responsible for the attacks, as Trump had said, Hegseth said, “The only side that targets civilians is Iran.” Trump then reiterated Hegseth’s comments and his previous statement, saying, “We think it was done by Iran. Because they are very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also defended Trump when asked about Iran
When asked by a reporter if the US had bombed a school in Iran, leading to the deaths of several children, during a press briefing on Wednesday, Karoline Leavitt defended Donald Trump and said she had not heard anything like that, but clarified that Pete Hegseth’s Department of War was conducting investigations.
She also added that the US does not attack civilians, unlike the “rogue” Iranian regime, which attacks its own people. Leavitt, trying to highlight the difference between the US and Iran, also said that the latter killed children, kills thousands of their own people, and uses “propaganda quite effectively,” which, “unfortunately,” many people in the room (speaking about press people) had fallen victim to.
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